Current Affairs One-liners — 12 November 2024
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Tue, 12 Nov 2024
- On 12 November 2024, the Commerce Ministry said WIPO's World Intellectual Property Indicators 2024 place India among the top 10 countries for patents, trademarks and industrial designs.
- On 12 November 2024, the Statistics Ministry said year-on-year CPI inflation for October 2024 was 6.21%, with food inflation at 10.87%.
- On 12 November 2024 off the coast of Odisha, DRDO conducted the maiden flight-test of the Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur.
- On 12 November 2024 in New Delhi, Union Power Minister Manohar Lal chaired the Conference of Power Ministers of States and UTs and launched Phase-II of Powerthon.
- On 12 November 2024, the Finance Ministry said public sector banks' aggregate business grew 11% year-on-year in the first half of FY 2024-25, with net profit of ₹85,520 crore.
- On 12 November 2024 in Bengaluru, Karnataka, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated a three-day Energy Technology Meet and said biofuel blending has saved the country ₹91,000 crore on the import bill.
- On 12 November 2024 in Guwahati, Assam, Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil chaired a review of Swachh Bharat Mission-Grameen in the North-Eastern states and called for Sampoorna Swachhata by March 2025.
- On 12 November 2024 in New Delhi, Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh addressed the inaugural Delhi Defence Dialogue organised by MP-IDSA, saying the government is creating an 'Adaptive Defence'.
- On 12 November 2024, the Statistics Ministry released Quick Estimates showing the Index of Industrial Production grew 3.1% in September 2024.
- On 12 November 2024, NICDC, the Government of Bihar and BIADA signed the State Support and Shareholder Agreements for an Integrated Manufacturing Cluster in Gaya, Bihar, a node of the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor.
- On 12 November 2024, the Panchayati Raj Ministry said the Union Government has released Fifteenth Finance Commission grants for rural local bodies in Kerala and Meghalaya.